Spotify removed the lyrics function from it’s mobile and desktops apps back in the summer, after a deal with lyrics database Musixmatch hit a bum note and ended.
The streaming service says it is making ‘big improvements’ to its lyrics support and plans to ‘share more updates’ in due course.
Spotify is launching a new real-time lyrics feature in 26 markets today, including countries in Asia and Latin America. Users can access them by tapping the 'lyrics' card at the bottom of the 'Now. Make sure Spotify is open (download it here). Click the purple button below the song artwork in the right column (on mobile, it’s located at the bottom of the page ). It looks like this.
But that’s cold comfort if you miss the ability click a button and instantly see lyrics for the currently playing song.
The desktop app will give you all the features for free as long as you connect a Google or Facebook account. The following instructions will show you how to get full lyrics Spotify steps by steps. How to get Spotify lyrics on PC. Download and install the Musixmatch app from the Windows store to your Windows. When your lyrics go live, there will be a link in your Spotify lyrics page the Genius page where your lyrics, annotations and song facts will exist. Genius is a great option, but its main disadvantage is that it doesn’t have the ability to time lyrics with your track and it won’t integrate directly with your music distributor.
Spotify Desktop App Lyrics
Well, there’s a new app that fills the song-word shaped gap.
Lyricfier, a Spotify Lyrics App
Now, I know what you’re thinking: as music player features go the ability to fetch and display lyrics isn’t essential.
But it was handy, particularly when checking out a new band or listening to a new song (“did they really just sing that?!“).
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The lyrics feature also helped many learn that the words in a song are not what you’ve always thought they were! (On that note please do share your stories about misheard lyrics below!).
If you use the Spotify for Web player app that we’ve written about a couple of times before then you don’t need this app as lyrics support is built-in (hurrah).
But the web player isn’t for everyone. If you want to stick to the official Spotify for Linux client and get lyrics back, Lyricfier is an almost perfect solution.
Lyricfier is an Electron app (no groaning) that detects which song you’re streaming in Spotify and then fetches matching lyrics from the web. When running it automatically changes on track change, too.
Spotify Lyrics Desktop App
The Github page explains: “We retrieve the current song of spotify client using the spotify built-in web server that allow us to ask for the current status of the player. The built-in web server could run in a range of ports starting at 4370. Lyricfier will launch multiple connections hoping find the actual port.”
When Spotify isn’t playing a track the Lyricfier app will show an error.
The app has a couple of settings, including an obligatory ‘dark theme’ option (pictured below) and the ability makes the lyrics window float on top of all your other windows.
Spotify Lyrics On Desktop
Naturally this app won’t be of use if a) you don’t like lyrics and b) don’t use Spotify. On the other hand, if you were upset to find Spotify lyrics gone, do check this out!
Spotify App For Computer Hp
You’ll find Lyricfier downloads for Windows, macOS and Linux available from the project website below:
Spotify Computer App Lyrics Download
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